Word: gentlemanly
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...Mistake. World War II came to an end for Konrad Adenauer on a quiet Sunday morning. The U.S. 9th Armored Division broke into Rhöndorf in its drive for the Remagen bridgehead. The lead tank fired three shells in the general direction of a 69-year-old gentleman who was quietly tilling his garden in overalls and straw hat. Adenauer threw himself down and escaped with nothing worse than bruises...
...stories in a halfpenny weekly called the Magnet. To his own astonishment, Bunter soon became a household word, and the entire British Empire seemed to take Greyfriars to its heart. It was a quiet, stiff-upper-lip sort of world where sex and politics were never mentioned, and no gentleman ever thought of tattling on another. Missionaries read about it in Malaya; traders took the Magnet along to Australia; soldiers snatched it up in their canteens in India. Eventually the time came when Charles Hamilton was forced to declare that Frank Richards had become a "public character." He wrote Richards...
...which, in any other field, they would [denounce] . . . Then there has been the unforgettable spectacle of politicians rising up ... to explain how their sensitive natures recoil from the vulgarity of commercial radio . . . It is rather as though Moll Flanders, confronted with the possibility of finding herself alone with a gentleman friend, should have fainted right away from shyness...
...with an Itch. There was a time when sailors were pretty well confined to short stretches of blue water between Bar Harbor, Me. and Palm Beach, Fla. with a few genteel outposts in New Orleans, the Great Lakes and the West Coast. Those were the days when a wealthy gentleman, admiring J. Pierpont Morgan's 302-ft. Corsair, asked him: "How much does it cost to run a yacht?" And old J.P. bluntly told him: "You cannot afford it. Anyone who has to ask how much it costs to run a yacht cannot possibly afford to keep...
...actress wife Vivien Leigh gave a dinner party at their Buckinghamshire farm (the guests: Composer Sir William Walton, Actor Sir Ralph Richardson and their ladies), burglars got into the house. Using Olivier's own ladder, they looted a bedroom of $19,600 worth of jewels and furs. Gentleman Farmer ("I keep a few pigs") Olivier recalled that his London home had been robbed in March, decided: "It is just not our year." Jockey Sir Gordon Richards, on the other hand, was convinced that there is some honor among thieves when his stolen spurs and gold cigarette case, a gift...